"He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front."

“Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn't appreciate and value you." You said the other day life was long," I shot back. "Which is it?" It's both," she said, shrugging. "It all depends on how you choose to live it. It's like forever, always changing." Nothing can be two opposite things at once," I said. "It's impossible." No," she replied, squeezing my hand, "what's impossible is that we actually think it could be anything OTHER than that.”

“It's easy to be a spokesman and ambassador for a great organization like the NBA. I thank Commissioner David Stern for putting that trust in me to serve the NBA around the globe.”

“Rarely do more than three or four variables really count. Everything else is noise.”

“An economist's definition of hatred is the willingness to pay a price to inflict harm on others.”

“You can find the whole world of a film in one instrument, or you can find a world of sound in the orchestra.”

Source : "Score one for originality" by Chuck Crisafulli, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 14, 2006.

“Various Turkish people invaded southwest Asia during the Middle Ages and carved an empire for themselves from lands occupied by the indigenous Semitic and Indo-European inhabitants.”

“Successful tape reading is a study of Force; it requires ability to judge which side has the greatest pulling power and one must have the courage to go with that side.”

Source : Richard Wyckoff (2006). “Studies in Tape Reading”, p.95, Cosimo, Inc.

“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”